from BBC Radio 4
Restoring the Cutty Sark
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from BBC news
Landmark ship 'faces collapse'
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The latest from BBC Radio 4 Material World explores the thinking and preparation which goes into the conservation of the historic ship, Cutty Sark, currently dry-docked in Greenwich, UK. The conservation plan behind the full-size ship involves complex computer-modeling for physical movements and changes as the ship is being treated using electrolysis to extract sodium salts from its iron hull. It is also interesting to note that the 2 key personnel being interviewed on the BCC Radio 4 programme are not conservators - perhaps, a sign of things to come as conservation projects no longer remain the sole domain of the "conservation" profession, but more as a cross-disciplinary enterprise?